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Shimano hydraulic rim brakes
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look cool tho
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US Patent January 1971:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=oltxAA ... t#PPA72,M1
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True, but there are only so many ways to operate a caliper with a hydraulic piston, and this is about the simplest.
Most of the patent relates to the fact that one lever operates both slave cylinders, and the use of different cylinder diameters to get the rear brake to come on first.
http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp32 ... 11a3_3.jpg
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True, but there are only so many ways to operate a caliper with a hydraulic piston, and this is about the simplest.
Most of the patent relates to the fact that one lever operates both slave cylinders, and the use of different cylinder diameters to get the rear brake to come on first.
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thats amazing.... :shock:
Shimano also had disk brakes in the '70s.
Shimano also had disk brakes in the '70s.
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